The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-03-16
GENERAL NEWS It
Items OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

Inc session OF Tie INDIANA General AS
sembly has expired by limitation.
Secretary Manning has arranged to make
4 tripto Europe for the benefit of his health.
Tho German Reictstag has passed the
S~cptennate bill by Il vote of 222 to 90.
The process of melting trade dollars has
begun at the assay office in New York.
Fifty-seven miners who were entombed
in the QuaXcgnOn colliery in Belgium have
escaped.
\ fleet of seven steamers has just arrived
at New York, bringing between 1000 and
:, 900 Storage passengers.
The striking printers of milwaukee, have
returned to work on the employers terms,
and promising not to remain in the union.
Tn Massachusetts Legislature, by a vote
of - TO 6, defeated the woman suffrage
resolution.
Representatives of all New England rail,
roads met in convention Thursday TO con-
slider the interstate commerce law.
Samuel Bonser, of Springfield, Ohio,
Tuesday night shot and killed Dora Judd
and then killed himself. Causc-unrcquit.
cd love.
Charles West, As Maiden Lane, New
York, has been arrested for s~windling per-
sons through the mail. He was known as
the Victor Watch Company.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Yates, granddaughter of
Chief Justice Marshall, was married to
Count Eugene MIitkicwicz in Washington,
ID. G.
Thc strike in the marble yard of Bowker,
Tory ~ Co., of Boston, has ended 10y the
complete surrender of the firm, and 300
laborcrS have resumed work.
Randall, Gill & Shollies, boot and shoe
dealers, Boston, have failed. Liabilities
$50, 900; assets unknown. The failure is
attributed to losses in the Southern trade.
Both branches of the Maine Legislature
have failed to give the necessary two-thi IS
vote on the passage of the amendment .
the Constitution providing for female SUI
frage.
Up to last Friday night there had been
HE'D ic the pension office 7.71G applications
for pensions under the Mexican pension
law passed late in the last session of Con
greSS.
Judge McCue, solicitor Of the treasury.
will visit Charleston shortly under ~instrnc-
tons from Acting Secretary Fairchild, with
a view of selecting n site for the new pub
lie building.
The last Alabama Legislature enacted n
law allowing women to hold the office of
Notary Public. The Governor has made
his first appointment under this law in the
person Of the wife of State Senator Long.
The dynamite works Of Mrs. Mary A..
Ditmar, at Bay Chester, on the Sound, near
New York, blew up for the fifth time Mon.
day, killing one man and dwelling the
buildings to the ground.
a Berlin dispatch says: Trade returns
for January were better than those for the
same month last year. Imports of Ameri.
can cotton rose from 176, 0S2 German quin-
tails to 22O,641.
A Los Angeles, Cal, dispatch says that
Tracy Titus, Il wcll-known theatrical man.
agcr, died on Saturday night at Sierra
Madrc Villa. He was at one time husband
Of Alice Oates, who died recently.
Lucy b. Parsons, lccturing negro An
archist, was refused the use of a hall in
Columbus, Ohio. She called on the Mayorto
protest against such action, and became so
abusive that She was locked up.
Inman and Mead Case, young sons of a
Baptist minister at llawlcy, Pa, quarrclcd
NJ their home and drew rcvolvcrs, and In
man Shot his brother Mead, intlicting n
mortal wound. lnman is wild with grief.
An effort was made to induce the Prcsi-
dent to sign the river and harbor bill after
Congress had adjourned, but he declined.
as such a course would have been uncon.
stitutiOnal.
nv "IN'i phiioh lhStoly Vi q, 4. VI. IIItN-
fus, of New York city, was DESTROYED 6y
fire on Saturday. Loss 800, 600. The
office Of the New York Weekly was much
damaged by the water. Loss $40 OO.
Last weeks issue of the Farmers Rcgie,c
says: Thus far reports from the winter
wheat belt indicate that the crop is cmerg-
ing from winter in a better shape than last
year.
J. Moreland, while working at a saw
mill eight miles from Eufaula Ala, fell in
front of the circular saw. One leg was
Sawn off clean, the other badly manglcd
and his body horribly lacerated. He died
in thirty minutes.
Frank G. Budd, broker, of New York,
who was brought back from Canada,
charged with dcfrauding II. III. Mallory,
publisher of the Murchman, of a large
sum of money, is confined at police head
quarters.
The public printer has discharged 1OG
employees, many of them regular hands.
The discharged employees include men
and women, and are distributed among
various branches of the office.
At Gloucester, Mass, on Sunday, the
cillgy of Capt. Quigley, of the Canadian
cruiser Terror, was found suspended in In.
dependent Hall, with the British union
down. The city marshal cut it down MS
soon rs he discovered 1t.
Representatives Hemphill and Dibblc are
looking after the interests Of their constitu.
cnts. Ilcmphill has called at the postoficc
department, and recommended the cstab-
lishment of a mail route from Rock Hill to
Gastonia.
The overflow of the Mississippi has inun-
dated the track of the Memphis and Little
Rock road from lIopcticld, opposite this
city, to Madison, Ark, n distance of forty
miles, making travel impracticablc.
There is great excitement at st. John,
Neb, in financial and commercial circles
over the suspension of the Maritime Bank.
No particulars can be obtained at present
as everybody seems to have been taken by
surprise.
A special from Vicksburg, Miss, says:
While a freight train on the Louisville,
New Orleans and Texas railroad was going
south through n tunnel Sunday night, two